Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Further Reading

North KoreaSpecial Weapons Guide

"I am the object of criticism around the world.
But I think that since I am being discussed,
then I am on the right track."
Kim Jong Il
[in "Orient Express" by Konstantin Pulikovsky]

In 2003 Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Assistance John R. Bolton noted in privated diplomatic exchanges that the U.S. believed the North Koreans, who were subject to a ballistic missile test moratorium, had an agreement with Iran to share data on Iran's ballistic missile tests.

In 2013, North Korea doubled the size of its uranium centrifuge facility.

John Bolton, US ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006, wrote on April 30, 2015 "Tehran and Pyongyang have cooperated on ballistic missiles since at least 1998 ... numerous reports have emerged of Iranian and North Korean scientists exchanging visits and potentially valuable information. What if Pyongyang is already hosting an extensive Iranian-enrichment program, deeply buried somewhere in its half of the peninsula? What if some of the estimated 20 warheads are actually Iranís property, having been manufactured and now stored far from Tehran to avoid detection? East Asian experts have long looked through a stovepipe at North Korea, and Middle East experts gaze through their own stovepipe at Iran."

On 14 July 2016, Iran and the P5+1 countries [Russia, USA, China, France and the UK plus Germany, signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).